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VOL. L
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1959
NO. 70
STUDENT QUERY
Linus Pauling
Senate Shapes To Speak for Evaluation System World Affairs
By JL'DY ASHKENAZY
“A definite system for prolessor evaluation and an evaluation form will tie submitted within three weeks to ihe Faculty Señale for study." announced ASSC President Scott Fitz Randolph.
ASSC’s executive branch, headed by Fitz Randolph and Y.ce President Scott Fitz Randolnh. have instituted a program that will clarify the executive committee's position to the faculty and speed ihe professor evlua-tion program.
They intend to compose the Actual evaluation form and develop a system of evaluation to present to the faculty.
Academic Life
The professor evaluation committee falls under the Committee on Academic Life, headed by Senator-at-Large Stevie Adams.
“The program is good in that sludents will be presenting well-thought-out opinions to the faculty and administration.. It is possible that these opinions will cause substantial changes to be
made in our university," said Fitz Randolph.
Teachers as well as the curriculum will be graded under the program.
Not Rating “It is not intended to be a
Nobel Prize-winner Linus C. Pauling will discuss “Science and World Affairs," tomorrow at 8 p.m. in 133 FH.
Dr. Pauling, a professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, spoke at
method of rating one professor i SC in May, 1958. At this time
acainsi anothei. Il will only en- an overflow crowd of more than able us to tell them what we , . , , , .
... „ oOO students heard his plea for
like so that we can have more r
of it.” Fitz Randolph said. halting of nuclear bomb
Professor Colin Lovell, out- tests. Dr. Pauling lashed out at spoken critic of the plan, con- those in favor of continued tests tends that students are not quali- because of the effect of radiation
fied to make such an evaluation.
“The only people who are qualified to evaluate anything are those people who are qualified in that particular field. Chemistry teachers, for example, can only be evaluated by other cause chemistry teachers, not students,“ he declared.
Dr.
Faculty Disapproval
Lovell's Faculty Senate
on future generations and the senselessness of fighting a nuclear war.
Defective Children Current testing alone could 5,000,000 defective children in the next 300 generations,’’ he said at that time. “And if nuclear weapons are
resolution urging the faculty to not outlawed some would-be
disapprove of and refuse to participate in the evaluation plans was turned down by that Senate.
“I’m just as leary as the faculty is of doing it wrong, of students being subjective. But all the questions on the evaluation form will be objective and the student will be required to substantiate his evaluation. We are not out to get one particular at professor or course,” Fitz Randolph stated.
“We feel that we are justified
Song Writer Teaches Here
David Raksin. composer of more than 100 Hollywood film scores, is now also teaching
SC.
His course, “Music in Motion Pictures" in SC's department of in doing this because we are c nema, began Friday and will paying tuition and therefore bo taught every Friday from should be able to show our pon-4:15 until 6 p.m. The course is cem in that investment," the non-technical, with emphasis on president declared, music for documentary films and Rational Student
cartoons. Although "Music in Fitz Randolnh said that he felt Motion Pictures" is an upper that the student is capable of (Mvision course, it may be peti- giving to the administration a tioned by juniors. rational mature opinion which
Raksins song, “Laura," from will help as well as benefit the the theme of that film, is the administration, second most-recorded piece in “We are not out to get one the history of music, having been particular professor or course, recorded in more than 200 dif- We aren’t trying to evaluate his ferent versions. personal habits or his politics
A graduate of the University either,’’ Fitz Randolph stated, of Pennsylvania, he has been In a plea for an improved ed-composing film scores in Holly- ucation. Fitz Randolph said. “We wood since 1936. His works in- don't want to make our educa-(lude music for “A1 Capone.” tion easier, we just want to “Separate Tables." “The Rad make it better. It is a thing we and the Beautiful,” and “For- should do ever Amber.” right.”
Hitler might set off an atomic war in hopes his country might survive.”
In addition to making numerous speeches, the outspoken professor last year presented to the UN a petition signed by 9.235 U.S. and foreign scientists calling for a halt to nuclear bomb testing.
Anti-Bomb Cause
Besides taking up the anti-nuclear bomb cause. Dr. Pauling has found time to lecture at several universities, write five books and win many awards in the field of chemistry.
Tomorrow’s lecture is sponsored by the School of Library Science.
NEW SWITCHBOARD-Los Angeles numbers and numbers for anywhere in the United States can be directly dialed from the new PBX which was installed on cam-
Daily Trojan Photo by John Brady
pus last Friday by Wesiern Electric Company. Testing the new phone system is DT reporter Pat Patton and Western Electric Technician Dick Steinhart.
STIFF SUBJECTS
Anatomy On Body
Director informs Donation Plans
Coeds Will Wash Cars for Charity
A seventy-five cent car wash will be set up by two SC sororities Friday to raise money for Troy Camp.
Pi Beta Phi and Alpha Epsilon Phi sororities are in competition to see which can sell the most tickets today through Friday. Fraternity men from Sigma and we can do it 1 Alpha Epsilon and Alpha Tau * Omega will help sell the tickets.
SC
By
Sophomore Sees World Walking to Other Lands
Bv JOE SALTZMAN
Some people rt'ad picture postcards and geographical text books to see the world. But Dave Sargeant. 21-year-old SC sophomore, sees the world by walking there.
A “hitchhiking-can-be-fun" advocate. SarEcant returned from his newest adventures a trip to Acapulco. Mexico—with a weatherbeaten suitcase and ihree dollars worth of Mexican pesos just in time for the next semester.
“By sleeping in the car.” the young globetrotter said. “I saved valuable time and traveled throughout Mexico in a limited ten-day trip" on seven American dollars.’’
Fast Walker Sargcanl. who has “walked” 1 o Anchorage. Alaska. Canada, dwice*. and Cuba »half of the way by boat), said that he even “walked” to’ Japan. Philippines, llonc Kong and Hawaii.
“Of course.” he smiled, “it w as aboard a marine ship sponsored by the U.S. government.” His impressions of Mexico are that of a tourist.
“I saw all of the important tourist places.” he said, “including La Clavadista en la Que-hrade (where male swimmers due into the shallow waters): the Teotihuacan Pyramids built by the ancient Mexican Indians: and Walt Disney’s “Perri” seen in Spanish, and they all impressed me.”
Mordida System “However, the mordida system reallv amused me.” he said
By RON KIBBY
To p person unfamilar with the willed-body program of the SC School of Medicine the row of cadavers found in the anatomy laboratories in Science Hall might provide a startling shock.
But to medical students these cadavers provide an important and necessary part of their curriculum and.it is the university’s willed-body program which insures an adequate supply of these teaching materials.
Useful Bodies Dr. Paul R. Patek, head of the anatomy department and director of the program, declared that the 10-year-old idea has become particularly effective during the past five years.
Science Interest He pointed to an increased interest in science and an enlightenment on the part of the public concerning the .importance of health as the main reasons for
MEXICO
:
C';; .. g H ¿i
Daily Trojan Photo by Jim Byna WHERE TO NEXT?—Dave Sargeant, 21-year-old SC sophomore tries to imagine where he will "walk” on his next trip to foreign lands.
cinal plants are also poisonous, he pointed out.
“It is the matter of quantity or dosage which usually spells out the difference between a deadly effect and a beneficial “I was a little embarrassed.” |and have reinforced bumpers be- one,” he said.
When asked what the mordida he said, “when ihe policeman cause livestock continually w'an- Leaves Cure
system w as. the ex-marine said flagged down a couple obviously I der on and off the highway and A Mexican priest reported that that “police officers siand by on their honeymoon to ask them make excellent targets.” a poultice made of leaves cured
the side of the road and collect if they would give me a ride.” “The bus drivers are not at sores which previously failed to bribes of 5 or 10 pesos or more Asking the obvious question, all concerned with their passen- respond to injections of penicil-from the loaded trucks. Sargeant said that the couple gers," he said, "because they do
“Drivers encourage this prac- refused him a ride but hoped not stop for merely one person
tice rather than go through the that he would get another. ¡who wants to get on. They just
High Prices ! keep on going until they feel
Sargeant thought that Aca- j like stopping."
Plants Cure Poor People With Drugs
The poorer people in Mexico have plants for the cure of cancer. high blood pressure, infectious colds and many other diseases, reports SC pharmacist,
Dr. Orville Miller, who has just returned from a two-month exploratory trip through that country.
“While there is at present no unassailable evidence supporting the effectiveness of these plant ‘cures,’ they certainly, deserve investigation,” he said.
Drug Origin
Dr. Miller, who is credited with developing an antidote for nerve gas, points out that some of our “civilized" drugs such as opiates, belladonna, reserpine and digitalis were first used by native people in many parts of the world.
“Many of these Mexican plants j Graduating with a degree in
are poisonous. Most *7 j psychology from a university
40 - year - old widow with
the increased interest in the program.
“One hundred years ago religious objection and riots due to suspected grave robbing prevented such programs, but today religious intolerance seems to be disappearing,” he said.
Willed Bodies Dr. Patek reported that approximately 50 bodies a year are willed to the school and that there are curfently more than 2000 such wills now in SC files. There are about 20 willed bodies now being used by SC medical students.
The cadavers may be used as much as a year and a half after being received.
The School of Medicine also provides anatomical materials to several Los Angeles hospitals for use in their resident intern programs. stated Dr. Patek.
Unclaimed Cadavers Before the willed-bodv program was introduced, thp only source of cadavers were the unclaimed indigent dead which were supplied by law by the State Board of Public Health. Dr. Patek said that all bodies now in use were willed, however.
Remains bequeathed to the university are used primarily in regularly scheduled courses in the* training of physicians. A received body is preserved and held for such a course or courses, after which it is ordinarily disposed of by cremation by the Los Angeles County Crematory.
No Cost If an individual who wills his remains to the university or his heirs or friends, desires services with the remains present, such arrangements must be made though a private funeral parlor and at no cost to the university. The private mortician can then arrange to deliver the remains to the university.
Should no such services be desired and the individual concern-
ed dies within the envirion of Los Angeles, the university will handle all procedures at no cost to heirs, triends, or estate.
Body Acceptance
The willed-b'ody program provides no remuneration before or after death either to the donor or members of his family, and the school will not accept bodies that have been autopsied or have died by violence. Such cadavers “lose their suitability for dissection because the body cavities have been opened,” Professor Patek explained.
Suicides where the cause of death is obvious without an autopsy will he accepted. The anatomy professor reported that several such suicides are being used now.
Reports concerning the finding in a study of a willed body will not be made to the family or friends of the deceased, but, upon written request, will be made to the physician of the deceased.
DR. MALCOLM B. STINSON
. . . new social work dean
New Dean To Direct Social Work School
A fifty-year-old University of Minnesota professor will
succeed Dr. Arlien Johnson a5 the new dean of SC’s School
o* bocial Work, President Norman Topping announced today.
Dr. Malcolm B. Stinson will become head of the school
April 1, after serving seven
years at Minnesota.
\
Dean Johnson, who will continue with the university as a professor of social work until June, has directed the school since 1939. nearly half of its 40-year life. The school has more than 2000 graduates. She will be I honored at a campus dinner Feb '>
24.
Social Teacher
I caching in schools of social i work has been Dr. Stinson’s major work since 1945. Before j going to Minnesota, he was at I the University of Pittsburgh for j four years.
He is a graduate of Minnesota, the University of Chicago 1 and Wittenberg College, Spring- i field, Ohio. He spent 10 years in I public welfare work in Missouri f and Illinois and with the Social Security Administration. Most of his positions were in research, one as director of the St. Paul Family Center Project.
Social Advisor He recently completed a two-year assignment as *an advisor on social work education to the University of Lucknow, India.-
Dr. Stinson and his wife have three sons, aged 19 and 14, and a daughter, 6.
SC is the first and only university in the West to offer the degree of Doctor of Social Work and is one of the 12 universities in the United States and Canada ! granting the doctoral degree.
Columbia Graduate Dean Johnson is a graduate of Reed College. Portland, Oregon; the New York School of Social Work, Columbia University and the University of Chicago.
She is a former president of the National Conference of Social Work, the American Association of Schools of Social Work and the California Conference of Social work.
* She taught at the University of Oregon and the University of Chicago and was director of the graduate School of Social Work at the University of Washington before joining the SC faculty.
Fund Director She was also associate director of the Seattle Community Fund for several years.
Dean Johnson was chairman of the California Crime Commission on social and economic causes of crime and delinquency for one year under Governor Earl Warren. In 1948 she won the Koshland award for her outstanding contributions to the social work field.
DR. ARLIEN JOHNSON
. . . ends deanship
SC Scientist Tells of New Fish Antitoxin
Dr. Marmorston States Hormones Help Heart
Female sex hormones appar- involved and variety of experi-
ently can be given safely in mental studies.
small doses to male heart attack Vcry few women suffer heart
patients for the rest of ,heir attacks until after the meno-
lives, reports SC’s Dr. Jessie Marmorston, the School of Medicine.
The hormones, “estrogen” reduce fatty substances to normal
pause. Thus, it was thought that estrogens might have something to do with preventing heart attacks in these women during their child-bearing years. The
levels in the blood of men who doctors reasoned that estrogens
Widow Nabs Degree, High Honors Here
for a
three children is something— but to also achieve membership in Phi Beta Kappa, the national scholastic honor society, is really something.
That’s the honor, though, for Mrs. Mary K. Gorman, one of
have suffered a heart attack in the form of a coronary thrombosis.
Reported Recently
These facts were reported recently before the third annual mid-winter symposium of the Los Angeles County Heart Association by Dr. Marmorston and her associates, Drs. Frederick J. Moore, Oscar Magidson, Jack J. Lewis and Oliver Kuzma.
Dr. Marmorston, her four collaborators from SC, the Los Angeles County Hospital and the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, studied a total of 193 men who had suffered a heart attack.
A condition known as myocardial infarction in which a block I in an artery keeps blood from j reaching the heart muscle, results in fatty deposits on the artery walls; 106 of the 193 men with coronary artery disease received estrogen therapy.
Large Study
The SC research is part of a tep-year heart study on both
mav protect women past the menopause and also may help men, especially those who have already had heart attacks.
Hormone* Given To preventing the dev elopment of feminine characteristics in the men, the hormones are given in small doses. If feminization appears, reduction of the hormone dosage and continuance at a lower dosage permits the undesirable symptoms to disappear.
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SC’s School of Medicine is developing an antitoxin which can be given to persons poisoned by deadly scorpian fish in the South Pacific.
Studies and results of research were discussed recently at the second annual meeting of the Western Pharmacology Society in San Francisco.
Potent Vernom Dr. Paul R. Saunders. SC pharmacologist, said that the venom of stonefish and lionfish is so potent that it can cause a man’s blood pressure to drop to zero in minutes. His heartbeat can fall from a normal beat of 72 per minute to 12. Death can often result unless epinephrine and artificial respiration are given immediately.
Dr. Saunders pointed out that the reason for the rapid drop in blood pressure is still unknown. With fall in blood pressure, fatal heart damage usually follows. Whether this results from the. loss of blood pressure or from action of the fish venom directly upon the heart muscle or coronary vessels is also unknown.
Poison Removed In his SC laboratory. Dr. Saunders has removed the poison from the spines of the 4fODical fish, and attempted to purify its active chemical substances to learn just how they cause a victim's blood pressure to fall. Pro-duction of an antitoxin will be the next step.
Along the California coast.
red tape and custom restrictions of different countries." he added.
•Mexican Cop’
He said that he had obtained the services of one of Ihese i*o-1 icemen by asking the “Mexican cop” to help get another town.
The officer, obviously
pulco was overrated and that 'prices were fantastically high.”
“I stayed in a cheap hotel or with families I met,” he said.
“As for meals, many of the peo-him a liti to pie who picked me up also let
me eat with them, paying for he said,
laken mv meal.” Since the trip only cost $7, he
Another unusual characteristic of Mexico, he said, was the amount of churches all the small cities have.
“One bad 365 churches, seemingly for each day of the year,”
with Sargeant s predicament. Sargeant said that the busses said 1hat he would like to take
flagged down lit to 15 cars until and trucks are decorated with another trip after this semester he got him i. ride. j religious statues and pictures I is over.
lin and streptomycin.
4n addition. Dr. Miller returned with samples of a plant used by Mexican Indians to stun and catch fish. The samples will be studied for possible medical applications, such as surgical an-aesthesis.
The root of'the plant, a small vine called cabesa de negra, is macerated by the Mexican Indians and thrown into rivers, paralyzing fish which float to the top. The Indians have also used it for centuries, in tea, ls a' rheumatism cure.
the 17 SC undergraduates re . . Ti . .
ccntly initiated info the national men and women. It is one of , J encietv the lar£est projects in the na-
Mrs. Gorman, who credits her tion from the standpoint of the children with making it possible numner of doctors and patients to achieve this honor, decided to acquire a college education four years ago 'when her husband j died, leaving her a modest pension.
She claims she will be better j qualified to provide for her children, Carolyn, 15; Susan, 7 and George, 5, because of her education.
“It’s better for a mother to have an education. There is much more I can do for the children with the knowledge I’ve acquired,” she said.
'59 Clabbers Meet Today
An urgent meeting of all ’59 Club members lias been called for today at 3 p.m. in FH 226.
All members are urged to attend this important meet-
*•
Frank Baxter To Read Khayyam's ’Rubaiyat'
“The Rubaiyat of Omar Khay-vam,” as translated by Edward FitzGerald, wil be read at today’s noon reading by Dr. Frank C. Baxter, professor of English and noted television personality.
Sponsored by the English department, SC’s noon reading is a weekly program, held every Monday at 12:30 in FH 129.
This semesters’ theme is “Writers of 1859.’ artd works by such 19th century literary figures as Tennyson, Thackeray and Dickens will be presented.
An Englishman. Edward FitzGerald began studying Persian poetry at Oxford in 1853, several years after his garduation from Trinity College, Cambridge, in .1830.
FitzGerald's translation of Omar Khayyam's "Quatrains first appeared in pamphlet form in 1859. At first the poems re-
ceived no particular attention but slowly became famous.
More Translations In 1868 he published a second and greatly revised edition. Two additional editions appeared in FitzGearld's lifetime.
One literary figure wrote that “the melody of FitzGerald’s verse is so exquisite, the thoughts he rearranges and strings together are so profound, and the general atmosphere of poetry in which he steeps his version is so pure, that no surprise need be expressed at the universal favor which the poem has met."
Popular Poems “The poems’ popularity has gone much deeper than this,'* he said, they are now probably belter known to the general public than any single poem of that class published since the year 1860.”

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California
DAILY
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Fellowships Available to Grad Students
VOL. L
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1959
NO. 70
STUDENT QUERY
Linus Pauling
Senate Shapes To Speak for Evaluation System World Affairs
By JL'DY ASHKENAZY
“A definite system for prolessor evaluation and an evaluation form will tie submitted within three weeks to ihe Faculty Señale for study." announced ASSC President Scott Fitz Randolph.
ASSC’s executive branch, headed by Fitz Randolph and Y.ce President Scott Fitz Randolnh. have instituted a program that will clarify the executive committee's position to the faculty and speed ihe professor evlua-tion program.
They intend to compose the Actual evaluation form and develop a system of evaluation to present to the faculty.
Academic Life
The professor evaluation committee falls under the Committee on Academic Life, headed by Senator-at-Large Stevie Adams.
“The program is good in that sludents will be presenting well-thought-out opinions to the faculty and administration.. It is possible that these opinions will cause substantial changes to be
made in our university," said Fitz Randolph.
Teachers as well as the curriculum will be graded under the program.
Not Rating “It is not intended to be a
Nobel Prize-winner Linus C. Pauling will discuss “Science and World Affairs," tomorrow at 8 p.m. in 133 FH.
Dr. Pauling, a professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, spoke at
method of rating one professor i SC in May, 1958. At this time
acainsi anothei. Il will only en- an overflow crowd of more than able us to tell them what we , . , , , .
... „ oOO students heard his plea for
like so that we can have more r
of it.” Fitz Randolph said. halting of nuclear bomb
Professor Colin Lovell, out- tests. Dr. Pauling lashed out at spoken critic of the plan, con- those in favor of continued tests tends that students are not quali- because of the effect of radiation
fied to make such an evaluation.
“The only people who are qualified to evaluate anything are those people who are qualified in that particular field. Chemistry teachers, for example, can only be evaluated by other cause chemistry teachers, not students,“ he declared.
Dr.
Faculty Disapproval
Lovell's Faculty Senate
on future generations and the senselessness of fighting a nuclear war.
Defective Children Current testing alone could 5,000,000 defective children in the next 300 generations,’’ he said at that time. “And if nuclear weapons are
resolution urging the faculty to not outlawed some would-be
disapprove of and refuse to participate in the evaluation plans was turned down by that Senate.
“I’m just as leary as the faculty is of doing it wrong, of students being subjective. But all the questions on the evaluation form will be objective and the student will be required to substantiate his evaluation. We are not out to get one particular at professor or course,” Fitz Randolph stated.
“We feel that we are justified
Song Writer Teaches Here
David Raksin. composer of more than 100 Hollywood film scores, is now also teaching
SC.
His course, “Music in Motion Pictures" in SC's department of in doing this because we are c nema, began Friday and will paying tuition and therefore bo taught every Friday from should be able to show our pon-4:15 until 6 p.m. The course is cem in that investment," the non-technical, with emphasis on president declared, music for documentary films and Rational Student
cartoons. Although "Music in Fitz Randolnh said that he felt Motion Pictures" is an upper that the student is capable of (Mvision course, it may be peti- giving to the administration a tioned by juniors. rational mature opinion which
Raksins song, “Laura," from will help as well as benefit the the theme of that film, is the administration, second most-recorded piece in “We are not out to get one the history of music, having been particular professor or course, recorded in more than 200 dif- We aren’t trying to evaluate his ferent versions. personal habits or his politics
A graduate of the University either,’’ Fitz Randolph stated, of Pennsylvania, he has been In a plea for an improved ed-composing film scores in Holly- ucation. Fitz Randolph said. “We wood since 1936. His works in- don't want to make our educa-(lude music for “A1 Capone.” tion easier, we just want to “Separate Tables." “The Rad make it better. It is a thing we and the Beautiful,” and “For- should do ever Amber.” right.”
Hitler might set off an atomic war in hopes his country might survive.”
In addition to making numerous speeches, the outspoken professor last year presented to the UN a petition signed by 9.235 U.S. and foreign scientists calling for a halt to nuclear bomb testing.
Anti-Bomb Cause
Besides taking up the anti-nuclear bomb cause. Dr. Pauling has found time to lecture at several universities, write five books and win many awards in the field of chemistry.
Tomorrow’s lecture is sponsored by the School of Library Science.
NEW SWITCHBOARD-Los Angeles numbers and numbers for anywhere in the United States can be directly dialed from the new PBX which was installed on cam-
Daily Trojan Photo by John Brady
pus last Friday by Wesiern Electric Company. Testing the new phone system is DT reporter Pat Patton and Western Electric Technician Dick Steinhart.
STIFF SUBJECTS
Anatomy On Body
Director informs Donation Plans
Coeds Will Wash Cars for Charity
A seventy-five cent car wash will be set up by two SC sororities Friday to raise money for Troy Camp.
Pi Beta Phi and Alpha Epsilon Phi sororities are in competition to see which can sell the most tickets today through Friday. Fraternity men from Sigma and we can do it 1 Alpha Epsilon and Alpha Tau * Omega will help sell the tickets.
SC
By
Sophomore Sees World Walking to Other Lands
Bv JOE SALTZMAN
Some people rt'ad picture postcards and geographical text books to see the world. But Dave Sargeant. 21-year-old SC sophomore, sees the world by walking there.
A “hitchhiking-can-be-fun" advocate. SarEcant returned from his newest adventures a trip to Acapulco. Mexico—with a weatherbeaten suitcase and ihree dollars worth of Mexican pesos just in time for the next semester.
“By sleeping in the car.” the young globetrotter said. “I saved valuable time and traveled throughout Mexico in a limited ten-day trip" on seven American dollars.’’
Fast Walker Sargcanl. who has “walked” 1 o Anchorage. Alaska. Canada, dwice*. and Cuba »half of the way by boat), said that he even “walked” to’ Japan. Philippines, llonc Kong and Hawaii.
“Of course.” he smiled, “it w as aboard a marine ship sponsored by the U.S. government.” His impressions of Mexico are that of a tourist.
“I saw all of the important tourist places.” he said, “including La Clavadista en la Que-hrade (where male swimmers due into the shallow waters): the Teotihuacan Pyramids built by the ancient Mexican Indians: and Walt Disney’s “Perri” seen in Spanish, and they all impressed me.”
Mordida System “However, the mordida system reallv amused me.” he said
By RON KIBBY
To p person unfamilar with the willed-body program of the SC School of Medicine the row of cadavers found in the anatomy laboratories in Science Hall might provide a startling shock.
But to medical students these cadavers provide an important and necessary part of their curriculum and.it is the university’s willed-body program which insures an adequate supply of these teaching materials.
Useful Bodies Dr. Paul R. Patek, head of the anatomy department and director of the program, declared that the 10-year-old idea has become particularly effective during the past five years.
Science Interest He pointed to an increased interest in science and an enlightenment on the part of the public concerning the .importance of health as the main reasons for
MEXICO
:
C';; .. g H ¿i
Daily Trojan Photo by Jim Byna WHERE TO NEXT?—Dave Sargeant, 21-year-old SC sophomore tries to imagine where he will "walk” on his next trip to foreign lands.
cinal plants are also poisonous, he pointed out.
“It is the matter of quantity or dosage which usually spells out the difference between a deadly effect and a beneficial “I was a little embarrassed.” |and have reinforced bumpers be- one,” he said.
When asked what the mordida he said, “when ihe policeman cause livestock continually w'an- Leaves Cure
system w as. the ex-marine said flagged down a couple obviously I der on and off the highway and A Mexican priest reported that that “police officers siand by on their honeymoon to ask them make excellent targets.” a poultice made of leaves cured
the side of the road and collect if they would give me a ride.” “The bus drivers are not at sores which previously failed to bribes of 5 or 10 pesos or more Asking the obvious question, all concerned with their passen- respond to injections of penicil-from the loaded trucks. Sargeant said that the couple gers," he said, "because they do
“Drivers encourage this prac- refused him a ride but hoped not stop for merely one person
tice rather than go through the that he would get another. ¡who wants to get on. They just
High Prices ! keep on going until they feel
Sargeant thought that Aca- j like stopping."
Plants Cure Poor People With Drugs
The poorer people in Mexico have plants for the cure of cancer. high blood pressure, infectious colds and many other diseases, reports SC pharmacist,
Dr. Orville Miller, who has just returned from a two-month exploratory trip through that country.
“While there is at present no unassailable evidence supporting the effectiveness of these plant ‘cures,’ they certainly, deserve investigation,” he said.
Drug Origin
Dr. Miller, who is credited with developing an antidote for nerve gas, points out that some of our “civilized" drugs such as opiates, belladonna, reserpine and digitalis were first used by native people in many parts of the world.
“Many of these Mexican plants j Graduating with a degree in
are poisonous. Most *7 j psychology from a university
40 - year - old widow with
the increased interest in the program.
“One hundred years ago religious objection and riots due to suspected grave robbing prevented such programs, but today religious intolerance seems to be disappearing,” he said.
Willed Bodies Dr. Patek reported that approximately 50 bodies a year are willed to the school and that there are curfently more than 2000 such wills now in SC files. There are about 20 willed bodies now being used by SC medical students.
The cadavers may be used as much as a year and a half after being received.
The School of Medicine also provides anatomical materials to several Los Angeles hospitals for use in their resident intern programs. stated Dr. Patek.
Unclaimed Cadavers Before the willed-bodv program was introduced, thp only source of cadavers were the unclaimed indigent dead which were supplied by law by the State Board of Public Health. Dr. Patek said that all bodies now in use were willed, however.
Remains bequeathed to the university are used primarily in regularly scheduled courses in the* training of physicians. A received body is preserved and held for such a course or courses, after which it is ordinarily disposed of by cremation by the Los Angeles County Crematory.
No Cost If an individual who wills his remains to the university or his heirs or friends, desires services with the remains present, such arrangements must be made though a private funeral parlor and at no cost to the university. The private mortician can then arrange to deliver the remains to the university.
Should no such services be desired and the individual concern-
ed dies within the envirion of Los Angeles, the university will handle all procedures at no cost to heirs, triends, or estate.
Body Acceptance
The willed-b'ody program provides no remuneration before or after death either to the donor or members of his family, and the school will not accept bodies that have been autopsied or have died by violence. Such cadavers “lose their suitability for dissection because the body cavities have been opened,” Professor Patek explained.
Suicides where the cause of death is obvious without an autopsy will he accepted. The anatomy professor reported that several such suicides are being used now.
Reports concerning the finding in a study of a willed body will not be made to the family or friends of the deceased, but, upon written request, will be made to the physician of the deceased.
DR. MALCOLM B. STINSON
. . . new social work dean
New Dean To Direct Social Work School
A fifty-year-old University of Minnesota professor will
succeed Dr. Arlien Johnson a5 the new dean of SC’s School
o* bocial Work, President Norman Topping announced today.
Dr. Malcolm B. Stinson will become head of the school
April 1, after serving seven
years at Minnesota.
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Dean Johnson, who will continue with the university as a professor of social work until June, has directed the school since 1939. nearly half of its 40-year life. The school has more than 2000 graduates. She will be I honored at a campus dinner Feb '>
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Social Teacher
I caching in schools of social i work has been Dr. Stinson’s major work since 1945. Before j going to Minnesota, he was at I the University of Pittsburgh for j four years.
He is a graduate of Minnesota, the University of Chicago 1 and Wittenberg College, Spring- i field, Ohio. He spent 10 years in I public welfare work in Missouri f and Illinois and with the Social Security Administration. Most of his positions were in research, one as director of the St. Paul Family Center Project.
Social Advisor He recently completed a two-year assignment as *an advisor on social work education to the University of Lucknow, India.-
Dr. Stinson and his wife have three sons, aged 19 and 14, and a daughter, 6.
SC is the first and only university in the West to offer the degree of Doctor of Social Work and is one of the 12 universities in the United States and Canada ! granting the doctoral degree.
Columbia Graduate Dean Johnson is a graduate of Reed College. Portland, Oregon; the New York School of Social Work, Columbia University and the University of Chicago.
She is a former president of the National Conference of Social Work, the American Association of Schools of Social Work and the California Conference of Social work.
* She taught at the University of Oregon and the University of Chicago and was director of the graduate School of Social Work at the University of Washington before joining the SC faculty.
Fund Director She was also associate director of the Seattle Community Fund for several years.
Dean Johnson was chairman of the California Crime Commission on social and economic causes of crime and delinquency for one year under Governor Earl Warren. In 1948 she won the Koshland award for her outstanding contributions to the social work field.
DR. ARLIEN JOHNSON
. . . ends deanship
SC Scientist Tells of New Fish Antitoxin
Dr. Marmorston States Hormones Help Heart
Female sex hormones appar- involved and variety of experi-
ently can be given safely in mental studies.
small doses to male heart attack Vcry few women suffer heart
patients for the rest of ,heir attacks until after the meno-
lives, reports SC’s Dr. Jessie Marmorston, the School of Medicine.
The hormones, “estrogen” reduce fatty substances to normal
pause. Thus, it was thought that estrogens might have something to do with preventing heart attacks in these women during their child-bearing years. The
levels in the blood of men who doctors reasoned that estrogens
Widow Nabs Degree, High Honors Here
for a
three children is something— but to also achieve membership in Phi Beta Kappa, the national scholastic honor society, is really something.
That’s the honor, though, for Mrs. Mary K. Gorman, one of
have suffered a heart attack in the form of a coronary thrombosis.
Reported Recently
These facts were reported recently before the third annual mid-winter symposium of the Los Angeles County Heart Association by Dr. Marmorston and her associates, Drs. Frederick J. Moore, Oscar Magidson, Jack J. Lewis and Oliver Kuzma.
Dr. Marmorston, her four collaborators from SC, the Los Angeles County Hospital and the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, studied a total of 193 men who had suffered a heart attack.
A condition known as myocardial infarction in which a block I in an artery keeps blood from j reaching the heart muscle, results in fatty deposits on the artery walls; 106 of the 193 men with coronary artery disease received estrogen therapy.
Large Study
The SC research is part of a tep-year heart study on both
mav protect women past the menopause and also may help men, especially those who have already had heart attacks.
Hormone* Given To preventing the dev elopment of feminine characteristics in the men, the hormones are given in small doses. If feminization appears, reduction of the hormone dosage and continuance at a lower dosage permits the undesirable symptoms to disappear.
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SC’s School of Medicine is developing an antitoxin which can be given to persons poisoned by deadly scorpian fish in the South Pacific.
Studies and results of research were discussed recently at the second annual meeting of the Western Pharmacology Society in San Francisco.
Potent Vernom Dr. Paul R. Saunders. SC pharmacologist, said that the venom of stonefish and lionfish is so potent that it can cause a man’s blood pressure to drop to zero in minutes. His heartbeat can fall from a normal beat of 72 per minute to 12. Death can often result unless epinephrine and artificial respiration are given immediately.
Dr. Saunders pointed out that the reason for the rapid drop in blood pressure is still unknown. With fall in blood pressure, fatal heart damage usually follows. Whether this results from the. loss of blood pressure or from action of the fish venom directly upon the heart muscle or coronary vessels is also unknown.
Poison Removed In his SC laboratory. Dr. Saunders has removed the poison from the spines of the 4fODical fish, and attempted to purify its active chemical substances to learn just how they cause a victim's blood pressure to fall. Pro-duction of an antitoxin will be the next step.
Along the California coast.
red tape and custom restrictions of different countries." he added.
•Mexican Cop’
He said that he had obtained the services of one of Ihese i*o-1 icemen by asking the “Mexican cop” to help get another town.
The officer, obviously
pulco was overrated and that 'prices were fantastically high.”
“I stayed in a cheap hotel or with families I met,” he said.
“As for meals, many of the peo-him a liti to pie who picked me up also let
me eat with them, paying for he said,
laken mv meal.” Since the trip only cost $7, he
Another unusual characteristic of Mexico, he said, was the amount of churches all the small cities have.
“One bad 365 churches, seemingly for each day of the year,”
with Sargeant s predicament. Sargeant said that the busses said 1hat he would like to take
flagged down lit to 15 cars until and trucks are decorated with another trip after this semester he got him i. ride. j religious statues and pictures I is over.
lin and streptomycin.
4n addition. Dr. Miller returned with samples of a plant used by Mexican Indians to stun and catch fish. The samples will be studied for possible medical applications, such as surgical an-aesthesis.
The root of'the plant, a small vine called cabesa de negra, is macerated by the Mexican Indians and thrown into rivers, paralyzing fish which float to the top. The Indians have also used it for centuries, in tea, ls a' rheumatism cure.
the 17 SC undergraduates re . . Ti . .
ccntly initiated info the national men and women. It is one of , J encietv the lar£est projects in the na-
Mrs. Gorman, who credits her tion from the standpoint of the children with making it possible numner of doctors and patients to achieve this honor, decided to acquire a college education four years ago 'when her husband j died, leaving her a modest pension.
She claims she will be better j qualified to provide for her children, Carolyn, 15; Susan, 7 and George, 5, because of her education.
“It’s better for a mother to have an education. There is much more I can do for the children with the knowledge I’ve acquired,” she said.
'59 Clabbers Meet Today
An urgent meeting of all ’59 Club members lias been called for today at 3 p.m. in FH 226.
All members are urged to attend this important meet-
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Frank Baxter To Read Khayyam's ’Rubaiyat'
“The Rubaiyat of Omar Khay-vam,” as translated by Edward FitzGerald, wil be read at today’s noon reading by Dr. Frank C. Baxter, professor of English and noted television personality.
Sponsored by the English department, SC’s noon reading is a weekly program, held every Monday at 12:30 in FH 129.
This semesters’ theme is “Writers of 1859.’ artd works by such 19th century literary figures as Tennyson, Thackeray and Dickens will be presented.
An Englishman. Edward FitzGerald began studying Persian poetry at Oxford in 1853, several years after his garduation from Trinity College, Cambridge, in .1830.
FitzGerald's translation of Omar Khayyam's "Quatrains first appeared in pamphlet form in 1859. At first the poems re-
ceived no particular attention but slowly became famous.
More Translations In 1868 he published a second and greatly revised edition. Two additional editions appeared in FitzGearld's lifetime.
One literary figure wrote that “the melody of FitzGerald’s verse is so exquisite, the thoughts he rearranges and strings together are so profound, and the general atmosphere of poetry in which he steeps his version is so pure, that no surprise need be expressed at the universal favor which the poem has met."
Popular Poems “The poems’ popularity has gone much deeper than this,'* he said, they are now probably belter known to the general public than any single poem of that class published since the year 1860.”